From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GnuTLS/TLS proposals for after the release Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:56:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8h8wzx0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87furnhj3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871t2obge8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83wpkfxcu9.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9bj6mnm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83poq7x9ow.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1m76jbc.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2geygl3.fsf@gnu.org> <87fur168ma.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83r3alwvbb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469260623 17375 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2016 07:57:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 07:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 09:57:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bQrnu-0003UN-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:56:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50702 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQrnt-0001k6-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQrnM-0001jy-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:56:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQrnG-00062z-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49743) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQrnG-00062p-JN; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2379 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bQrnE-0007Js-NW; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 03:56:17 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:44:28 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206061 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:44:28 +0200 > > On 07/22/2016 05:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I'd like to hear from more people who know about those platforms. > > Paul, for example. > > I regularly build Emacs on old Solaris systems that lack libraries that > we require for typical builds (e.g., libgif). I haven't checked whether > these systems also lack libgnutls, and don't much care whether they do. > If they lack it, I'll configure --with-gnutls=no; if not, not. So I'm in > favor of the change that I proposed. Emacs will still need to work even > if libgnutls is absent, so I'm not sure what practical effect this will > have on Emacs development in the short run. But it should encourage more > packagers to make sure Emacs is linked with libgnutls. Thanks. This matches my thinking. So I don't object to the proposed change (on master, of course; and please mention that in NEWS).